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Merry Christmas, feel free to sing along
A merry Christmas from Wendy and the rest of the Parker family.
December 24, 2017
Business
Trucking delivers toys, charity
Details on two companies’ holiday donation drives — Transervice Logistics’ decades-running toy drive and CFI’s longstanding Truckloads of Treasure campaign.
December 21, 2017
Business
Spot market update: Closer-to-normal trends on offer in the last week, though the ELD mandate could change that
Dry van volumes were pretty similar last week to the week before. Rates started to settle down a little after peaks post-Thanksgiving, and the surge in volumes that sent prices skyward on the West Coast is mostly in the rearview – all normal stuff for this time of year. Then the ELD mandate happened. …
December 20, 2017
Business
When ‘being in the red is a good thing’: Van spot market hot states — all but Mass., Fla.
The national van average rate is back up to $2.09/mile post-Thanksgiving, and the load to truck ratio is a record 9:3. All states but the two named are shaded deep red, indicating high demand for trucking services …
December 7, 2017
Business
Seeking recommendations for wormhole repair
“I think we need some wormhole repair around this joint. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and the day before yesterday was Easter, right?”
November 22, 2017
Business
Christmas in July
The “Sleigh Bells for Santa” effort of Truckersfinalmile.org relies solely on public charitable donations to operate. 100 percent of monies raised go toward actual cases. TFM founder Robert Palm uses collected funds to support the efforts of reuniting drivers and their families, in the event of critical illness, injury or death while they’re on the road.
July 3, 2017
Business
Christmas-New Year ‘downtime week’ rates some of the strongest this year for reefers, vans
This weekly spot market update, covering last week’s Christmas-New Year interregnum for a sizable chunk of the American economy, showed van and reefer rates remaining strong, “perhaps even stronger” than prior weeks, noted DAT’s Ken Harper.
January 6, 2017
Business
Thing-a-ma-bobs is dangerous
“This just in!! The super-popular ‘Thing-a-ma-bob,’ hottest toy on the market for Christmas 2016 and manufactured in Wehateamericastan, has been reported to cause hair loss and possible self-immolation!” …
December 26, 2016
Channel 19
How Elves Trucking LLC got back in service — just in the nick of time
A guest Channel 19 post from the desk of Richard Wilson and TCRG Consulting: “The DOT elves were on the prowl only to find a jolly old sleigh driver elf with a time card instead of a logbook on hand. …”
December 23, 2016
Business
I heard the Jakes on Christmas day…
A Christmas poem and merry wish from Wendy and the Parker family: “I heard the Jakes on Christmas day / Their old familiar bellows play / Low and deep the blasts repeat / Of food on tables, good will to men.” …
December 23, 2016
Business
Aunt Wendy’s gifts for oddly-shaped children
“Here I go again, waiting until the first of December to start work on hand-made Christmas gift items for 42 people,” including what appears to the naked eye to be a ruffle-covered tactical vest for a neckless infant.
December 2, 2016
Business
You’ll put your eye out with that thing
The story of cousin George nearly putting his eye out with his CB mic: “No honey, self-inflicted head injuries are never cool. Now rest up, so you can be a plumber or lawyer when you grow up…”
November 30, 2016
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